Clothes-wringer



(No Model.)

W. A. LIPPOLD. CLOTHES WRINGER.

No. 588,453. Patented Aug. 17,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. LIPPOLI), OF CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND.

CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,453, dated August17, 1897.

Application filed January 28, 1897. $erial No 621,066. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LIPPOLD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cumberland, in the county of Allegany and State of Maryland,have invented new and useful Improvements in Olothes-Wringers, of whichthe following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to that type of clothes- Wringers in which theclothes are twisted by a revolving shaft having suitable means forholding the clothing at one end or portion,the other end or portionbeing held either by the hand of the operator or by suitable mechanicalmeans. v

It is the purpose of my present invention to provide a clothes-wringerof this type which shall be capable of operation either by power ormanually, as circumstances may require, and to so construct and organizethe several parts of the mechanism that it shall possess.

great simplicity and durability and be manufactured at very low cost.

It is a further purpose of my invention to provide a wringer of the typementioned'which can be operated by steam, electric power, or otherwise,which shall accomplish its functions rapidly and thoroughly, and shallprovide an efficient safeguard against the removal or breaking ofbuttons.

My lnvention consists, to these ends, in the novel features ofconstruction and new combinationsof parts hereinafter fully explained,

and then particularly pointed out and defined 1n the claim whichconcludes this specification.

For the purposes of the following description reference will be had toFigure 1 is a view in end elevation, showing part of the frame of awringer constructed according to my invention and mounted upon the edgeof a tub or sink. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, the part uponwhich the Wringer is mounted being in vertical section.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral lindicates the frame of thewringer, consisting of a flat base 4:, adapted to rest upon the edge ofa tub, sink, or the like and forked or bifurcated on its under side, asshown, to straddle said edge, anclattached thereto by a set-screw 5,which is'screwed through one side of the forked base and provided with afoot 6, which presses against one side of the tub. Projectingfromtheupper side of the base 4 are two parallel arms or brackets 2.

the accompany-' Near the upper ends of the brackets 2 I provide suitableopenings or bearings for a wringer-shaft which projects beyond the outerfaces of both the brackets 2 2..

Fixed on the wringer-shaft outside the brackets 2 are collars 8, whichprevent any longitudinal movement of the shaft, and fixed on the end ofthe shaft is a crank-arm or handle 9, by means of which the wringer maybe operated by hand.

The other end of the wringer-shaft, which projects overthe tub or sink,is formed into or provided with a hook 10, of suitable dimensions toreceive such a mass of saturated clothing as canbe wrung out by a singleoperation of "the machine. Between the brackets 2 2 I mount two pulleysupon the wringer-shaft 7, one of said pulleys, as 12,

being loose on the shaft and the other pulley, 13, fast. A single belt14 connects said pulleys with any suitable power mechanism, a suitablebelt-shifter 15 being provided to throw the belt upon the fast pulley orfrom the latter to the loose pulley. I may operate the shaft 7 by anypreferred power-such, for example, as steam, by an electric motor ormanually, the crank 9 being provided for this latter purpose.

The invention comprises very few parts, is of the utmost simplicity, andis durable un-' perends of said arms and curved at one end to formahook, a crank-arm fixed on the 0p- .posite end of the wringer-shaft anda fast and loose pulley mounted on the said shaft between said uprightarms, substantially as shown and described and for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. LIPPOLD.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD HADRA, CHAS. MILHIsER.

